Monday, December 10, 2007

Nintendo's new found success

Who would have thought that Nintendo would recuperate from its fall from grace following the virtual boy debacle and the rise of the playstation to reclaim its crown at the top of the videogame world about 10 years after the ps one launched. I mean Nintendo had really fallen on hard times, first its innovative system, the great calamity known as the virtual boy had gone down inflames, then the playstation came out square deffected to sony's new system and produced Final Fantasy 7, which went on to become a mega hit, at the same time konami also defected and produced symphonie of the night another mega hit and my favorite game for the original playstation along with resident evil, another megahit and a game that capcom could never have produced on the kid friendly nintendo. But things would only get worse as in 2001 nintendo lost seond place to microsoft's xbox, a console made by an American company ( there had not been a successful one since atary) from a company that specialized in software not hardware anbd in pc games not console games. Nintendo must have been more ashemed than a religious conservative who finds out his daughter and wife are pornstars. Ofcourse Microsoft was smart enough to launch its system with the mighty Halo one of the best games ever as opposed to Nintendo who launched the game cube with Luigi's Mansion (wtf) I hope they fired someone for that one. But nintendos missteps dint end there , no, they launched mario Sunshine a game far infirior to its predecessor mario 64, they launched the absolutly awesome resident evil remake but in my view they failed to promote it properly and they held off their biggest achivements resident evil4 and the legend of zelda twilight princess until the system had essentially bit the dust. Don't get me wrong I loved the game cube, I played anmal crossings 6months straight eveery single day, i played the resident evil remake nonstop, however nintendo should have promoted those games more. Anyway last year they released the Wii (I originally had my doubts but by launch time I couldnt wait to play the sysytem ) and bang all of the sudden theyre back on top of the world. what did they do sign the same contract that the Clintons signed with satan? I never would have though that nintendo would be number one again , good for them though.

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